The escalating attacks in Gaza
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🗓️ 30 May 2024
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
How far-right Israeli settlers are blocking aid to Gaza. And, why humanitarian aid has become politicized.
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Right-wing Israeli settlers stepped up their attacks on aid trucks passing through the West Bank this month, blocking food and aid from reaching Gaza as humanitarian groups warn that the enclave is sinking deeper into famine.
The Post’s Loveday Morris went to a border crossing to see these blockades in real time. Today, we break down what this means for the ongoing humanitarian crisis in the region, and how aid has become so politicized.
Today’s episode was produced by Sabby Robinson. It was edited by Lucy Perkins and mixed by Sean Carter. Thanks also to Erin Cunningham.
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| 0:46.6 | Earlier this month, under pressure from the US, Israel opened a new crossing for aid trucks, |
| 0:49.3 | traveling to Gaza. But aid is not always getting in. |
| 0:53.2 | Far right Israeli activists are stepping up attacks on aid trucks bound for Gaza. |
| 1:04.8 | In one video, you can see a group of young men stomping on boxes of food and smashing them |
| 1:10.4 | on the ground. What we've seen as these groups of young settlers setting up this very organized network of online groups, mostly run through |
| 1:25.4 | WhatsApp groups, where they plan attacks on aid trucks, traveling through the |
| 1:32.1 | West Bank and going to Gaza. |
| 1:35.0 | Loveday Morris is in Jerusalem and reporting on the Israel-Gazah war for the post. |
| 1:40.0 | She traveled to the crossing to see what's happening there. |
| 1:43.4 | And you have people following these trucks on the road |
| 1:48.0 | and then stopping them, that some people are setting up makeshift |
| 1:51.0 | checkpoints, stopping them, asking them for documentation to prove they're not going to Gaza. |
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